Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Prologue PART ONE Foreigners A.D. 2020-2042 Chapter 1 Gaijin Chapter 2 Baikonur Chapter 3 Debates Chapter 4 Ellis Island Chapter 5 Saddle Point Chapter 6 Transmission Chapter 7 Reception PART TWO Travelers A.D. 2061-2186 Chapter 8 Ambassadors Chapter 9 Fusion Summer Chapter 10 Travels Chapter 11 Anomalies Chapter 12 Sister Planet Chapter 13 The Roads of Empire Chapter 14 Dreams of Ancestral Fish Chapter 15 Colonists Chapter 16 Icosahedral God Chapter 17 Lessons PART THREE Trenchworks A.D. 2190-2340 Chapter 18 Moon Rain Chapter 19 Dreams of Rock and Stillness Chapter 20 The Tunnel in the Moon Chapter 21 Homecoming Chapter 22 Triton Dreamtime Chapter 23 Cannonball PART FOUR Bad News from the Stars A.D. 3256-3793 Chapter 24 Kintu’s Children Chapter 25 Wanpamba’s Tomb Chapter 26 Kimera’s Breath Chapter 27 The Face of Kintu Chapter 28 People Came from Earth Chapter 29 Bad News from the Stars Chapter 30 Refuge Chapter 31 Endgame PART FIVE The Children’s Crusade A.D. 8800, and Later Chapter 32 Savannah Chapter 33 The Fermi Paradox Chapter 34 The Children’s Crusade Epilogue Afterword
Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter To my nephew, Thomas Baxter. And Simon Bradshaw and Eric Brown
Innumerable Suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these Suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds…
— GIORDANO BRUNO (1548–1600) If they existed, they would be here.
— ENRICO FERMI (1901–1954)
